Re: pano & wide angle

[Simon Nathan <simonwide@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dear steve- please tell simon what
or who is the  the source of the question because it is so perfect
that it would appear to be a ringer.
it can be answered at several
different levels. i hesitate to answer out of my pool of forty years experience.
my answers might offend, frinstance....

Simon Nathan wrote:

  GOODBYE, HENNING! SIGNED:SIMON

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    Please, Simon, use standard fonts. I enjoy the contents of your posts, but
    I'm at the point of filtering your posts to trash due to the junky way they
    come across.T.S.

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ahmad hosni wrote:

> What is the difference between a pano & an ordinary
> wide angle?
> If it is just the crop, then why bother to buy a pano?
> But I understand there are manytypes of panos; so which type is actually
> able to give me a wide angle ( around 200 degrees) without a distortion
> & by not just rcopping the image?
so let's just say that it is generally
a ratio and this includes the narrow mind.
simon says! thank you, ahmad.